Collection: Adult Fiction Paperback

City stockbroker Alex Rocq leads a comfortable life - with a luxury flat in London, a country cottage, a very expensive car and a lucrative job that still leaves time for leisure. But all this isn't enough. After receiving a tip-off, he decides to play the commodities market for himself. Except h...

Holocaust survivor and American citizen, Jossi Goldberg, is found shot execution-style in his house near Frankfurt. A five-digit number is scrawled in blood at the murder scene. The autopsy reveals an old tattoo on the corpse's arm - a blood-type marker of the kind used by Hitler's SS - causing d...

20 years after the elemental conflict that nearly tore apart the cosmos in 'The Saga of Seven Suns', a new threat emerges from the darkness, and the human race must set aside its own inner conflicts to rebuild their alliance with the Ildiran Empire for the survival of the galaxy.

The Victorian gossipmongers called them Men in Petticoats. But to young widow Mattie Stacey, they are Freddie and Ernest, her gentlemen lodgers. It is Mattie who admires their sparkling gowns, makes their extravagant hats and laughs at their stories of attending society balls dressed up as the gl...

The order of the world is in turmoil. An age of industry is beginning, an age of machines fuelled by magic. Sprawling cities rise, strange devices stalk the land. New money brings new power. The balance between the Hundred Kingdoms is upset. For the first time in generations the threat of war loo...

Georgia Driffield grows from girlhood to womanhood in the years between the two wars. However, it is not until she discovers the extraordinary life of her great-great-grandmother that she finds a way to reconcile herself to her adoption.

Connie Diamond has supported her husband for 24 years whilst he built up his cleaning firm Diamond Shine. Della Frostick is Jimmy's right-hand woman at Diamond Shine and is hanging on for the moment when he eventually breaks away from his boring marriage and declares his love for her. But when De...

This collection marks Graham Swift's return to the short form after seven acclaimed novels and confirm him as a master storyteller. They unite into a richly peopled vision of a country that is both a crucible of history and a maze of contemporary confusions.

Amy Fulford, excellent pupil and gifted athlete at a girls' public school in Ascot vanishes one Saturday afternoon. DSI Marshe runs the local missing persons unit. He is responsible for overseeing the disappearance of Amy Fulford. But, as a late joiner and with only ten years of service, and a bu...

Why would a mathematics professor from Cambridge University, renting a holiday home outside Cape Town, require a false identity and three bodyguards? And where is he, now that they are dead? The only clue to the bodyguards' murder is the snake engraved on the shell casings of the bullets that kil...